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Canadian News

CBC News
RCAF worried about keeping CH-148 Cyclones' weapons systems operational

The Canadian Press
Questions surround Canada's promise of air defence system for Ukraine

The Guardian
Canada reverses course after blocking Russian anti-war activist’s citizenship

CBC News
Canada Post selling off logistics business as part of effort to 'transform' Crown corp

CBC News
Who benefits most from Canada's ambitious EV targets?

CBC News
He drives an electric truck, but his home can't handle the charger it came with

CBC News
Rebel News' David Menzies arrested after an encounter with Chrystia Freeland

BBC News
The tricky problem of banning Canadian work experience requirements

Agence QMI
Pluie verglaçante, grésil, neige : près de 38 000 foyers sans courant - Plus - Plus

Radio-Canada
Un représentant de Rebel News arrêté alors qu’il tentait d’interviewer Chrystia Freeland

Radio-Canada
Une installation de déchets nucléaires autorisée à Chalk River

Agence QMI
Palmarès des passeports les plus puissants: voici où se positionne le Canada à l’international

Radio-Canada
Des primes de 15 % pour retenir des travailleurs de la santé et des services sociaux

Canadian Commentary

John Ivison | National Post
The RCN sinks toward impotence because Ottawa can't manage to procure ships

National Post
The CAF’s all-in embrace of far-left 'anti-oppression' dogma

Tim Powers | The Hill Times
New year, old problems for Trudeau

Arthur Milnes | The Hill Times
Self-described ‘Iron Man’ of Canadian politics, Jean Chrétien turns 90

Marsha Lederman | The Globe and Mail
For Jewish Canadians, the number of places we feel unwelcome keeps growing

Irwin Cotler | National Post
South Africa is inverting reality by accusing Israel of genocide

Eileen Dooley | The Globe and Mail
Returning to the office – the big win for the lazy employee

John Ibbitson | The Globe and Mail
Justin Trudeau seems to have forgotten it’s his job to hold the country together

Zi-Ann Lum | Politico
Justin Trudeau has lost his grip: Canadians don’t like him anymore.

Gwynne Dyer | Brooks Bulletin
Abandoning the Sahel

Frédéric Arnould | Radio-Canada
Vers un couronnement inévitable de Donald Trump à l’investiture républicaine ?

Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski | Radio-Canada
Non, les vaccins contre la COVID-19 n’ont pas fait 17 millions de morts

International News

CISA Alert
Microsoft Releases Security Updates

CNN News
Winter storm knocks out power to hundreds of thousands in the Northeast

The Conversation
Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in 2023, NOAA says

The Associated Press
Holiday gatherings and a new variant have driven up COVID cases globally, WHO says

ABC News
Record number of firearms found at airport checkpoints in 2023, TSA says

NPR News
Hunter Biden makes a surprise appearance at his own contempt hearing - More

ABC News
Trump fraud trial: Trump's closing argument in doubt following heated email exchange - More

The Guardian
Trump warns of ‘bedlam’ if criminal cases bar him from White House

Politico
Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says

NPR News
Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president

The Guardian
Republican Chris Christie suspends presidential bid

Politico
Hunter Biden derails GOP vote to hold him in contempt

South China Morning Post
Chinese migrants lured to Oklahoma are victims of labour, sex trafficking, official says

The Associated Press
X Corp. has slashed 30% of trust and safety staff

The Washington Post
U.N. helicopter seized by al-Shabab militant group in Somalia - More

The Guardian
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: What we know on day 687

VOA News
Zelenskyy: Ukraine Has Stopped Russia but Needs More Air Defense Systems

CBC News
South Africa's genocide case against Israel

BBC News
Israel-Gaza war: Blinken says cost of conflict on children far too high

The Guardian
UK government accepts Israel has legal duty to provide basic supplies to Gaza

France 24
'The people of Israel do not want war': Michal Herzog

BBC News
US and UK hint at military action after largest Houthi attack in Red Sea

The Guardian
UNSC passes resolution demanding end to Red Sea attacks

The Guardian
Britain warns of severe consequences after Houthi attack in Red Sea repelled

The Guardian
Houthis call west’s bluff with renewed Red Sea drone assault

The Associated Press
Germany approves missile export to Saudi Arabia in departure from previous policy

BBC News
China tells US it will 'never compromise' on Taiwan

CNN News
China claims it has cracked Apple AirDrop’s encryption to identify senders

BBC News
The Taiwan that China wants is vanishing

South China Morning Post
US, Chinese officials remain at odds over Taiwan during military talks

South China Morning Post
China’s Xi Jinping pushes for stable US ties and more exchanges in letter

BBC News
Streets empty as Ecuador reels from violence

The Associated Press
Guyana asks U.S. to help boost its military as territorial dispute with Venezuela deepens

Agence France-Presse
Chris Christie jette l'éponge pour les primaires républicaines

Agence France-Presse
De nouvelles restrictions pour les ados sur Facebook et Instagram

Agence France-Presse
ONU : le Maroc obtient la présidence du Conseil des droits de l'homme en 2024

Le Figaro
De la glace du Groenland exportée pour faire des cocktails, la nouvelle folie de Dubaï

Agence France-Presse
Le chômage risque de s’aggraver dans le monde en 2024, selon l’OIT

Agence France-Presse
L’observatoire Copernicus confirme que 2023 a été l’année la plus chaude de l’histoire

Agence France-Presse
Anders Behring Breivik, qui dit être « traité comme une bête », purge sa peine

Agence France-Presse
JO 2024 : Anne Hidalgo déclare qu’elle se baignera dans la Seine

Agence France-Presse
Volodymyr Zelensky en Lituanie pour une visite officielle

Agence France-Presse
Blinken réaffirme le soutien des États-Unis à la création d’un État palestinien

Agence France-Presse
Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU réclame l'arrêt « immédiat » des attaques des Houthis en mer Rouge

Agence France-Presse
Les forces britannique et américaine déjouent « la plus importante attaque » des Houthis en mer Rouge

Agence France-Presse
Espionnage : l'Azerbaïdjan demande à la France de cesser toute « ingérence »

Agence France-Presse
La Chine jure qu’elle « ne fera jamais le moindre compromis » sur Taïwan

Agence France-Presse
Chine : des ingénieurs assurent avoir brisé le chiffrement de l'AirDrop d'Apple

France 24
L'Équateur, l'ancien havre de paix sud-américain devenu un État failli

International Commentary

Lee Hockstader | The Washington Post
How the West’s waffling undermines Ukraine’s war effort

Emma Ashford and Kelly A. Grieco | Foreign Affairs
A New Strategy Can Protect Kyiv and Stop Moscow From Winning

Ruth Marcus | The Washington Post
The justices will keep Trump on the ballot. Here’s how (and why) they’ll do it.

Gordon Brown | The Guardian
In 2008, we were inches from peace in the Middle East. I believe it’s still within our grasp.

Chris McGreal | The Guardian
Israel is murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Where is the outrage?

Naomi Klein | The Guardian
We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Valerie Plame | Foreign Policy
What It’s Actually Like Being a Woman in the CIA

Emma Brockes | The Guardian
I thought 2024 would be grim and predictable, then I saw the words ‘secret illegal tunnel under Brooklyn’

Ali Wyne | Foreign Policy
U.S. Policy Shouldn’t Depend on Chinese Weakness

Olga Chyzh | The Guardian
Putin won’t lose Russia’s election, but his grip on power could be weakened

Alexandra Prokopenko | Foreign Affairs
Putin’s Unsustainable Spending

Books

Natalie Stechyson | CBC News
Since when did reading books become a game? Well, millions are playing.